Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (born Icek-Hersz Zynger, in Yiddish: יצחקבאַשעװיסזינגער) is an American writer of Polish origin , born with Radzymin (in Poland) on July 24th, 1904 and deceased on July 24th, 1991 with Miami in Florida.

Writer, author of novels in Yiddish, it twice accepted the price Louis Lamed, the National Book Award ( ex-aequo with Thomas Pynchon) in 1974 and finally the Nobel Prize of literature in 1978 “for its art of enthusiastic storyteller who, fascinating root in the culture and the judéo-Polish traditions, brings back to the life the universality of the human conditions. ”

Biography

Born from a father Rabbi hassidic and from a mother itself girl of rabbi, it grows with Warsaw where his/her father was a spiritual leader but also a judge continues studies in a rabbinical school where is exempted to him an at the same time traditional and religious education. It is there that he learns the modern Hebrew and is interested amongst other things in the training of the precepts of the Kabbale. It starts to write as of 1925 and publishes some news published in reviews Yiddish under various pseudonyms. Its first work: Satan in Goray , is published in 1932. Its first works are written in Hebrew but it makes the choice quickly write in its native tongue, primarily oral, that its work of writer transforms into an invaluable testimony and an alive document: the Yiddish. In order to flee the growing Anti-semitism at that time, it leaves the Poland for the the United States in 1935 with his brother Israel Joshua Singer (writer him also) and becomes American citizen in 1943. During its career it published 18 novels, 14 books for children and of the collections of news. The enthusiasm of the American public for its books comes with their English translation in the Années 1950 (undertaken in particular by Saul Bellow). Its novel, very dense and very rich person, as well draw his matter in the history of the Jewish people as in his memories of childhood or in its American experiment. Isaac Bashevis Singer prolongs the great tradition of the storytellers traditional Yiddish. With an immense talent of narrator, it makes cohabit the Satyre (in his observation of contemporary Jewish manners) and the supernatural one: malignant phantoms, demons and spirits make frequent appearances in its fictions where they generally play a crucial role because it allow ressusciter or of métaphoriser Hebraic culture and traditions and problems inherent in sexuality. Many its books evoke with a mixture of humor, naivety, realism and imagination, as well verbal as narrative, the life of the Jews in the Poland of before the Second world war. It extends its reflection on the concept of identity, making of the Jewish individual a being constantly in prey with the doubts, torn between the respect and the promotion of its traditions and the will to appease its passions in a company where it seeks to be essential without never having of place, nor of recognition. But the author, in his late writings, exceeds the simple community framework to evoke the doubts and the neuroses of the men in the contemporary world of which it brings closer the suffering to that of the animals. In the Years 1970, Singer had become a convinced Végétarien besides, having even thorough the comparison between the human behavior (towards the animal world) and that of the Nazis. Singer dies in 1991 with Miami of the continuations of a Cerebral vascular accident. In 1983, Barbra Streisand had adapted to the cinema its news Yentl .

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